What And Why

A child asks “what is that?” which is

easy to answer.

A child asks “why is …?” and three

iterations from the original question we 

scream: “I don’t know!” 

We know the words but not the meaning.

We have words for things but don’t know

why they are.

Enough answers in our armory and we stop

shuddering in uncertainty long enough 

to function. Challenges to security of view

are met with automatic defenses. Trial and 

error, albeit terribly inefficient, are sufficiently
effective, given the power of the human 

brain, that most are able to stumble through

existence for a certain amount of time 

without necessarily being aware that much 

is happening at all. Questioning is 

discouraged by schools that only give 

answers that need to be learned to fit the

agenda, whether they have any relationship

to the truth or not. The most powerful advice

to humans in order to propel them towards

freedom, enlightenment, liberation is to 

question everything.